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Physiotherapy can offer excellent employment opportunities in Australia or overseasend of quotation

Do you want to play a part in the prevention of injury and disability? Could you rehabilitate patients after injury has occurred?

Our new physiotherapy course 1 will equip you with the skills to practice as a competent physiotherapist in environments ranging from hospitals to private practice.

Graduates will be able to manage patients in a variety of settings and be able to handle a range of caseloads, model/s of intervention and service delivery. This course will teach you a range of techniques used to treat patients to prevent movement disorders. For example, exercise prescription, pain and self management strategies, all helping to assist with patients’ wellbeing, independence and recovery.

Industry experience

To become a registered physiotherapist insight and essential skills are gained through mandatory industry experience. You will therefore complete a number of clinical placements. These units will enable you to develop an integrated problem-solving approach to assessing and understanding individuals’ problems. You will also gain the ability to apply assessment and treatment skills and specific techniques in the clinical setting.

Students will practice on themselves and other students as simulated patients, all the examination and treatment procedures used by physiotherapists.

Career pathways

Physiotherapy can offer excellent employment opportunities in a variety of settings including:

  • specialist areas e.g. sports physiotherapy, rehabilitation, cardiorespiratory physiotherapy, paediatrics, and women’s health
  • hospitals and rehabilitation units
  • community health centres
  • private practices offering a full range of treatments
  • research, advisors, consultants in educational, government and industrial institutions.

Read about the Bachelor of Pyhsiotherapy

Welcome to Physiotherapy at ACU National

Prof. Pauline Nugent, Dean of Health Sciences, introduces the Bachelor of Physiotherapy course, commencing at ACU National's Brisbane campus in 2010.

Considering a career in Physiotherapy?

Jennifer Murphy, a Clinical Physiotherapist, discusses physiotherapy as a career and her professional consultancy role in ACU National's Bachelor of Physiotherapy course.

Would you like to know more?

Submit the form or email physiotherapy@acu.edu.au to receive the information on the Bachelor of Physiotherapy.

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